Christine Kooi

Half the fun of lecturing about Zwingli is you get to say "Zwingli" repeatedly.

Zwingli is great for this kind of thing. When teaching about his disagreement with Luther about the Eucharist, I used to use that old Bill Clinton line "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is." But now that's too old a reference for today's students.

It's convenient when you work with multiple devices, but there are distinct downsides.

I need to remember to use this phrase the next time I teach about the Affair of the Sausages

Time to download my files onto my own hard drive.

This is such a gendered administration.

Why is it that anytime a software system (I'm looking at you, Moodle) gets "upgraded" it becomes less user friendly?

Papers on Dutch imperialism are also welcome!

Academic history colleagues, list all the different courses you teach. 🗃️
Mine are:

1. Reformation
2. Renaissance
3. Early Modern Low Countries
4. Women in Early Modern Europe
5. Europe and the World 1400-1700
6. Early Modern Europe
7. Western Civilization to 1500
8. Grad Seminar in Ren and Ref

A grim thread. I have reverted to mostly in-class assignments. The era of undergrads writing essays unsupervised on their own time is rapidly coming to a close.

Trump's vanity war.

He did this instead. bsky.app/profile/mari...

The conservative project in a nutshell: to maintain hierarchies.

Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

In the end, he's a real estate developer and nothing more.

This is how I came to my 1572 project. Things that happened that year kept coming up as I researched other topics.
It's our curiosity that makes us scholars, not our efficiency. 🗃️

Super niche #earlymodern query: has anyone ever worked with account books that are records of salaries received by specific individuals?

I've a prioress and her steward both making these payments. The individual verifies receipt and then signs. The book is a running tally of these disbursements.

I don't.

It surprises me not one iota that Trump's vanity war has neither strategy nor planning.

En Lieke is Lucifer.

Doesn't the Guardian itself have some sort of partnership with an AI company?

The brave new world of AI, bringing death to a lot of people, including a least a hundred schoolgirls.

Imagine the outcry if a Democratic Senator had done that.

"Masses" is a condescending way to refer to human beings.

Which actual teachings: "I came not to bring peace but a sword"? "No one comes to the Father except through me"? "If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out"? "Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me"? Jesus said lots of things.

First Things needs to brush up on its religious history.

Nope.

All fair questions.

Paternal: Manufacturer of bicycle saddles.
Maternal: Reformed Protestant preacher.
Grandmothers: both homemakers, but maternal was briefly a teacher before marriage.

Definitely on Team One over here.

Start with this. bsky.app/profile/moby...